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Emulsion characterization via microfluidic devices: A review on interfacial tension and stability to coalescence

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2021.102541

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Emulsion; Interfacial tension; Microfluidic device; Coalescence; Emulsion stability

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  1. Academy of Finland [322514]
  2. Canada Research Chair program [950-231567]
  3. NSERC Discovery Grant [402005]
  4. Academy of Finland (AKA) [322514, 322514] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)

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Emulsions play a significant role in various industries and the understanding of factors affecting their generation, such as properties of dispersed and continuous phases, system conditions, and emulsifier behavior, is crucial for their design and optimization of processing conditions.
Emulsions have gained significant importance in many industries including foods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health care formulations, paints, polymer blends and oils. During emulsion generation, collisions can occur between newly-generated droplets, which may lead to coalescence between the droplets. The extent of coalescence is driven by the properties of the dispersed and continuous phases (e.g. density, viscosity, ion strength and pH), and system conditions (e.g. temperature, pressure or any external applied forces). In addition, the diffusion and adsorption behaviors of emulsifiers which govern the dynamic interfacial tension of the forming droplets, the surface potential, and the duration and frequency of the droplet collisions, contribute to the overall rate of coalescence. An understanding of these complex behaviors, particularly those of interfacial tension and droplet coalescence during emulsion generation, is critical for the design of an emulsion with desirable properties, and for the optimization of the processing conditions. However, in many cases, the time scales over which these phenomena occur are extremely short, typically a fraction of a second, which makes their accurate determination by conventional analytical methods extremely challenging. In the past few years, with advances in microfluidic technology, many attempts have demonstrated that microfluidic systems, characterized by micrometer-size channels, can be successfully employed to precisely characterize these properties of emulsions. In this review, current applications of microfluidic devices to determine the equilibrium and dynamic interfacial tension during droplet formation, and to investigate the coalescence stability of dispersed droplets applicable to the processing and storage of emulsions, are discussed.

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